Evidence of meeting #17 for Environment and Sustainable Development in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was targets.

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On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Sam Banks  Committee Researcher
Clerk of the Committee  Mr. Normand Radford
Michel Arès  Counsel, Legal Services, Department of the Environment

4:55 p.m.

Liberal

John Godfrey Liberal Don Valley West, ON

It just amplifies the middle bit; it tops it up.

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Conservative

Mark Warawa Conservative Langley, BC

Okay, so we're not dealing with amendment BQ-3.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

No.

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Conservative

Mark Warawa Conservative Langley, BC

Why are we dealing with amendment LIB-6 before BQ-3?

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

Because it comes before the Bloc amendments.

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Conservative

Mark Warawa Conservative Langley, BC

I understood it was under.... We're on clause 9.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

Clause 9, and we're dealing with line 20.

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Conservative

Mark Warawa Conservative Langley, BC

Okay, I've got it. Thank you.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

Are there any other comments? Is there any other debate?

(Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

Now we'll go to amendment BQ-3 on page 13. If amendment BQ-3 is adopted, then amendments NDP-3 and NDP-4 cannot be proceeded with as they are.

Mr. Bigras.

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Bloc

Bernard Bigras Bloc Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, QC

If I'm not mistaken, amendment BQ-3 proposes to do away with subsection (c).

In that case, I would withdraw amendment BQ-3. However, I would like to suggest an amendment to subsection (c). After the word “repealing”, I would add “in conformity with section 7” before “the necessary regulations”.

May I move an ad hoc amendment?

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

So you would add after paragraph 9(c). You would carry on with paragraph 9(c) as it is, and you would then add. Is that correct, Mr. Bigras?

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Bloc

Bernard Bigras Bloc Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, QC

That's correct.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

You want to have conformity with clause 7. That's what we're looking for.

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Bloc

Bernard Bigras Bloc Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, QC

Precisely.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

Does everybody follow that process? That basically comes afterward. It is in line 31. In the English, after “repealing”, we add “in conformity with section 7”.

We have to fix the French and English, but does everybody understand what the motion by Mr. Bigras is?

You're withdrawing amendment BQ-3 and replacing it with this amendment.

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Bloc

Bernard Bigras Bloc Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, QC

That's right.

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Conservative

Maurice Vellacott Conservative Saskatoon—Wanuskewin, SK

Say that again.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

We take amendment BQ-3 and get rid of it. We replace it, adding on to paragraph 9(c). The wording in paragraph 9(c) stays as is and we add “in conformity with section 7”.

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Liberal

John Godfrey Liberal Don Valley West, ON

And then carry on.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

And then carry on, yes.

This becomes an amendment to paragraph 9(c).

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Conservative

Maurice Vellacott Conservative Saskatoon—Wanuskewin, SK

Paragraph 9(b) stays exactly intact, as it is.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

Yes. Mr. Bigras' motion deals only with paragraph 9(c).

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Bloc

Bernard Bigras Bloc Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, QC

With the adoption of amendment NDP-2, we are amending section 7 which deals with the process of limiting the amount of greenhouse gases that may be released in each province. Section 7 allows for that possibility. In section 9, we want to ensure that the regulations are made in conformity with section 7.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

Just that little addition, then, is what we would be voting on now.

Go ahead, Mr. Warawa.